SCRamble: Adaptive Decentralized Overlay Construction for Blockchain Networks

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Autori principali: Kolyvas, Evangelos, Antonov, Alexandros, Voulgaris, Spyros
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author Kolyvas, Evangelos
Antonov, Alexandros
Voulgaris, Spyros
author_facet Kolyvas, Evangelos
Antonov, Alexandros
Voulgaris, Spyros
contents Despite being under development for over 15 years, transaction throughput remains one of the key challenges confronting blockchains, which typically has a cap of a limited number of transactions per second. A fundamental factor limiting this metric is the network latency associated with the block propagation throughout of the underlying peer-to-peer network, typically formed through random connections. Accelerating the dissemination of blocks not only improves transaction rates, but also enhances system security by reducing the probability of forks. This paper introduces SCRamble: a decentralized protocol that significantly reduces block dissemination time in blockchain networks. SCRamble's effectiveness is attributed to its innovative link selection strategy, which integrates two heuristics: a scoring mechanism that assesses block arrival times from neighboring peers, and a second heuristic that takes network latency into account.
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spellingShingle SCRamble: Adaptive Decentralized Overlay Construction for Blockchain Networks
Kolyvas, Evangelos
Antonov, Alexandros
Voulgaris, Spyros
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Networking and Internet Architecture
Despite being under development for over 15 years, transaction throughput remains one of the key challenges confronting blockchains, which typically has a cap of a limited number of transactions per second. A fundamental factor limiting this metric is the network latency associated with the block propagation throughout of the underlying peer-to-peer network, typically formed through random connections. Accelerating the dissemination of blocks not only improves transaction rates, but also enhances system security by reducing the probability of forks. This paper introduces SCRamble: a decentralized protocol that significantly reduces block dissemination time in blockchain networks. SCRamble's effectiveness is attributed to its innovative link selection strategy, which integrates two heuristics: a scoring mechanism that assesses block arrival times from neighboring peers, and a second heuristic that takes network latency into account.
title SCRamble: Adaptive Decentralized Overlay Construction for Blockchain Networks
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10277